View full sizeRay Whitehouse, The OregonianOregon and Kenjon Barner will get a chance to avenge the Ducks 38-35 loss to USC this season when they travel to Los Angeles on Nov. 3 to play the Trojans.

The Pacific-12 Conference released its 2012 football schedule Wednesday and it features every game on national television for the first time in conference history.

The Pac-12's game of the year could be Nov. 3 when Oregon meets USC in Los Angeles. Both teams will be highly ranked and potential BCS title contenders when the 2012 season starts, and their Nov. 3 meeting could set up a rematch on Nov. 30 in the Pac-12 championship game.

Oregon State has seven home games – the most since 2006 – including a Reser Stadium matchup on Sept. 8 with Big Ten Conference champion Wisconsin and the Nov. 24 Civil War game with Pac-12 champ Oregon.

Wisconsin is the first Big Ten team to come to Corvallis since Iowa in 1971.

Oregon's seven-game home schedule lacks marquee attractions, with three non-conference games against mid- to lower-level teams and with the USC and Oregon State games on the road. Stanford had the best 2011 record of the teams that visit Eugene, but the Cardinal will be without All-America quarterback Andrew Luck.

The Pac-12 schedule release noted that with the new ESPN and FOX media rights agreement as well as the launch of the Pac-12 Networks in August, every Pac-12 football game will be available to fans nationally. Exactly how many fans will have access to the games will depend on programming decisions of cable-TV companies, but the TV package will eliminate regional distribution, which was prevalent in the prior broadcast arrangements.

There will be 44 games on the combination of ESPN's family of networks, Fox Broadcast and FX, while 34 games are scheduled to air on the Pac-12 Networks.

Utah is currently scheduled to get the 2012 season started on August 30 with a Thursday night game against Northern Colorado in Rice-Eccles Stadium. It will be one of 10 games hosted by Pac-12 teams in the opening week. Only UCLA (at Rice) and Washington State (at BYU) open on the opponent's home field.

The Pac-12 Conference schedule begins September 15 when Stanford and USC renew their rivalry at Stanford. Everyone else, except Washington, begins Pac-12 play the following week, including three-time defending champion Oregon, which will begin its title defense at home against Arizona on Sept. 22.

The Thursday night schedule will include Stanford at Washington on Sept. 27, USC at Utah on October 4, Arizona State at Colorado on Oct. 11 and Oregon at Arizona State on Oct. 18.

Friday games will include Washington at Cal on November 2, and three rivalry games on Nov. 23, Thanksgiving weekend: Arizona State at Arizona, Utah at Colorado and Washington at Washington State. The Pac-12 championship game also will be on Friday, Nov. 30.

The Ducks' nonconference games are against Arkansas State, Fresno State and Tennessee Tech. Oregon hosts Arizona and new coach Rich Rodriguez on Sept. 22, and one week later meets new coach Mike Leach's Washington State Cougars on Sept. 29 at Century Link Field in Seattle.

Notes: When the Ducks host Washington Oct. 6 at Autzen Stadium former UO players Justin Wilcox and Peter Sirmon make their return as Huskies' assistants. … OSU opens Sept. 1 with the first-ever visit by the Nicholls State Colonels of Louisiana led by former OSU assistant coach Charlie Stubbs.